Clothes container



Feb. 22, 1927.

Gian YWK F. S. BOLTZ CLOTHES CONTAINER Filed July 31. 1925 gr'wf 7 1 15 65 Patented Feb. 22 1927.

PATENT ()FFECE FRED S BOL'IZ, OF MANSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS. I

CLOTHES CONTAINER.

Application filed July 31, 1925. Serial No. 42,241.

The invention, relates to a new and useful. improvement in clothes container for use in laundries, dye establishments and the like for use in holding and delivering soiled clothes to the wash wheel or delivering to the dyeing machine clothes to be dyed. It is especially intended to provide such a device to be hung to a trolley or other overhead support.

The invention will be fully understood from the following description when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the novel features thereof will'be pointed out and clearly defined in the claim at the close of this specification.

the drawings: 1 Fig. 1 is a side elevation'of-a-device emb'odying the invention shown as hung from an overhead trolley and in operative position for delivering the goods to the wash wheel.

Fig. 2 isa front elevation of the device embodying the invention shown in Fig. 1, the wash wheel being omitted.

Fig. 3 shows the container tipped into position to run the nose further into the wash wheel than shown in Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings:

There is shown at the container mounted'on trunnions 11, 11 projecting from cross bars 9 on opposite sides of the container, said trunnions being journalled in the yoke shaped frame 12 which has a swivel or turntable connection at 13 with a bar 1 1 to which are secured upwardly extending forked bearing members 15 in which are ournalled trol-. ley 7 wheels 16 running on an overhead track 17 The container 10 is hung off its centre of gravity by the trunnions so located that normally itwill have a slight pitch as shown in full lines in Fig. l, to hang clear of the wash wheel 18 and thereby enable the operator to load the clothes into the container more easily. There is shown at 18 a wash wheel having a receiving opening 19 for the goods. The container is hung so that its delivery opening 20 will be adjacent the inlet opening 19 to the wash wheel.

The container is provided with a bottom which is preferably curved downwardly and outwardly, forming a convex heel portion 21 as'shown in Fig. 1. The delivery opening 20 is located in the sidenear the bottom and toward the wash wheel." There is provided a movable closure member 22 which is adapted to close the opening and is provided eiztendv through the inlet opening 19 into 7 the interior of the wash wheel. Nose portion 23 acts as a ram swinging on trunnions 11 if the soiled clothes need packing into the wash wheel.

The closure member 22 is rigidly mounted upon one end of an arm 24, the other end of said arm being fast to a shaft 25 journalled in bearings 26,26 in the side of the container. An operating lever 27 provided at one end with a clutch member 28 is mounted loosely onthe shaft 25 in such manner thatit is both rotatable and slidable axially on said shaft. Said clutch member 28 is provided with teeth which are adapted to engage with ,teeth on a clutch member 29 mounted fast on the shaft 25. In Fig. 2 the said clutch members are shown disengaged from each other. By means of the lever 27 the clutch member 28 may be moved into engagement with the clutch member29 at will'so that by rocking said lever 27, the shaft 25 may be rocked in its bearings and thereby operate the closure member 22 to openand close the opening 20 in the container.- l/Vhen the operating lever 27 is in the position shown in full lines in Fig. 1, the closure member 22 will be in closing position. By pulling the lever 27 downwardly the end of the arm 241 connected with the closure member will be rocked upwardly into the dotted line position shown in Fig. 1, thereby raising the closure member 22.

Secured to the opposite ends ofthe closure member 22 are the flange members which, when the closure member 22 is in closed position extend up respectively on the outside of the sidewalls of the container 10 so as to close the opening 20 at the sides something after the'manner of the flangev on a '27 will be operated to adjust the nose of the container into the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1. p is When the wash wheel has become nearly filled with the g ods Sc that they begintc tainer being pivotally suspended and having an opening in one side at the lower end, a closure member for said discharge opening, a pivoted lever having operative connection with 'said closure member whereby said closure member may be opened and closed, an overhead supporting member and a swivel connection between said container and said overhead support. i

6. A container for goods for delivery to a wash wheel or other receptacle, said container being pivot-ally suspended and having an opening in one side at the lower end, a closure member for said discharge opening, a pivoted lever having operative connection with said closure member whereby said closure member may be opened and closed, an overhead supporting member and a swivel connection between said container and said overhead support, said overhead supporting member being provided with a hanger carrying trolley wheels which permit the container to be hung from and moved on an overhead track.

7. A container for goods for delivery to a wash wheel or other receptacle, said container being pivotally suspended and having an opening at or near the lower end, closure member for said di charge opening and a pivoted lever having operative connection with said closure member, whereby said closure member may be opened and closed, said container being provided with a window in one of the side walls thereof.

8. A container for goods for delivery to a wash wheel or other receptacle, said container being pivotally suspended and having an opening at or near the lower end, a closure member for said discharge opening, a pivoted lever having operative connection with said closure member, whereby said closure member may be opened and closed, said container being formed with a forwardly extending nose below the opening, said nos-e being adapted to be projected into the opening in the receptacle into which the goods are to be delivered. v

9. A container for goods for delivery 83 a wash wheel or other receptacle, said container being pivotally suspended and having an opening at or near the lower end, a closure member for said discharge opening, a pivoted lever having operative connection with said closure member, whereby said closide at the lower end, a closure member for said discharge opening, a pivoted lever having operative connection with said closure member whereby said closure member may be opened and closed, an overhead support,

a swivel connection between said container and said support and .a hanger mounted on said support having trolley wheels adapted to run on an overhead track.

11. A container for goods for delivery to a wash wheel or other receptacle, said container being pivotally suspended and having an opening at or near the lower end, a closure member for said discharge opening and means whereby said closure member may be opened and closed, said container being provided with a window in one of the side walls thereof.

12. A container for goods for delivery to a wash wheel or other receptacle, said container being pivotally suspended and having an opening at or near the lower end, a closure member for said discharge opening, means whereby said closure member maybe opened and closed, said container being formed with a forwardly extending nose below the opening, said nose being adapted to be projected into the opening in the receptacle into which the goods. are to be delivered. r

13. A container for goods for delivery to a wash wheel or other receptacle, said container being pivotally suspended on a horizontal axis and having an opening in one side at or near the lower end, a closure member for said discharge opening, means wherebysaid closure member may be opened and closed, an overhead support, a swivel connection between said container and said support and a hanger mounted on said support having trolley wheels adapted to run on an overhead track.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

5 FRED S. BOLTZ.

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